Tom Pidcock will trip the Mountain Bike World Championships in Andorra, it was confirmed on Tuesday, defending the world title he gained in Glasgow final summer time.
After turning into a double Olympic champion in the mountain bike cross-country occasion in Paris, Pidcock had a quick break from competitors however will return to motion on the worlds in Andorra subsequent week.
Taking place between 28 August and 1 September, different occasions on the competitors will embrace the cross-country quick monitor and downhill disciplines.
Alongside Pidcock, fellow Olympian Charlie Aldridge will symbolize Great Britain within the elite males’s cross-country squad. British nationwide cross-country champion Cameron Orr can also be set to trip.
In the under-23 males’s class, Joe Blackmore will likely be gunning for a world title alongside elite quick monitor nationwide champion Max Greensill.
Meanwhile, Evie Richards, fifth-place within the Olympic cross-country ladies’s occasion in Paris, will look to reclaim the world title she gained in 2021. Annie Last and Isla Short will race alongside Richards for GB. Ella Maclean-Howell would be the sole rider within the under-23 feminine class for the staff.
Last day trip in Glasgow, Pidcock overcame mechanical points along with his bike earlier than powering to the world title. His win on the Glentress Forest course close to Peebles made him the primary male British rider to turn into the elite cross-country mtb world champion.
Pidcock gained gold on the Paris Olympics regardless of an early puncture which practically took him out of the working for a medal at Élancourt Hill. He then powered previous France’s Victor Koretzky within the closing phases to take the win.
“The greatest factor is to encourage individuals, and that is what I like to do. Hopefully I did that in the present day,” he stated afterwards.
Pidcock’s highway programme for Ineos Grenadiers for the remainder of the season is unknown, though his identify options on the preliminary begin checklist for each the GP de Montréal and GP de Québec in Canada, and is considered using the Tour of Britain originally of September.
Pidcock has been linked with a transfer away from Ineos in latest weeks, which he stated had left him “mentally frazzled” on the time of the Olympic highway race.
